[joey_richardson]

Make a list of 5. You can add more if you want (they don't have to be in any particular order)

1. Wally Pfister (Inception, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Memento)
2. Emmanuel Lubezki (should have one the Oscar for Tree of Life, Children of Men)
3. Roger Deakins (Shawshank Redemption)
4. Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Minority Report, Munich)
5. Robert Richardson (Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2, Inglorious Basterds, The Aviator, Shutter Island)

Other favourites:

Jeff Cronenweth
Gordon Willis (The Godfather 1,2 and 3)
Conrad Hall (Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Cool Hand Luke)

[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]

Was Roger Deakins the guy that worked with Sam Mendes for American Beauty and Road to Perdition? He was awesome. He may have also worked with Mendes for Jarhead too, but I am pretty sure Mendes changed cinematographer for that one one.

Take a look at Road to Perdition trailer, you can see its impressiveness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1iCd___dNY

Also, what about Children of Men? The car shootout scene was mesmeric. Filmed in ONE LONG TAKE (no edits or change of camera angles). What closely, what an impressive technical achievement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_r6AGZ2eU

[joey_richardson]

(Original post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Was Roger Deakins the guy that worked with Sam Mendes for American Beauty and Road to Perdition? He was awesome. He may have also worked with Mendes for Jarhead too, but I am pretty sure Mendes changed cinematographer for that one one.

Deakins worked on Jarhead and others like Shawshank Redemption (one of my fav films), Revolutionary Road with Sam Mendes (I think that is the film you meant) and No Country for Old Men

(Original post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Also, what about Children of Men? The car shootout scene was mesmeric. Filmed in ONE LONG TAKE (no edits or change of camera angles). What closely, what an impressive technical achievement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga_r6AGZ2eU

Absolutely, it's up there being one of the best technically filmed scene I've seen

[MissBlueskys]

1. Charles Rosher (Sunrise: A song of two humans, Daddy long legs)
2. Seamus McGarvey (Atonement, Avengers, The Soloist)
3. Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus)
4. Robert Burks (Vertigo, The Birds)
5. Florian Hoffmeister (The Deep Blue Sea, Great Expectations TV Series)
6. Nestor Almendros (The Days of Heaven, Sophie's Choice)

This is really irritating me because I know there is someone I absolutely love that I can't remember. The name is on the tip of my tongue.

[velvetbrain]

Ron Fricke, watch this video and you'll see why: